Baseball & Softball

Sub-headings:

Amateur Baseball

Baseball Economics

Baseball Parks

Baseball Statistics, Commentary, & Analysis

Minor Leagues

These are the official website of various minor and independent leagues. Using these sites, you can navigate to the individual sites of teams within each league.

Negro Leagues Baseball

Before Jackie Robinson, blacks were not allowed to play in the Major Leagues, so from the 1920s through the 1950s, they played in separate, unequal leagues which produced exciting baseball and colorful stars such as Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson.

Skills Development

Softball

Umpiring

Resources in this category:

1952 TOPPS Baseball Cards
http://www.1952toppsbaseballcards.com/

A detailed description of the "first 'modern baseball card'" with photo guide, checklist and noticeable traits of the series.

All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League
http://www.aagpbl.org/

Discover the history of the 1943-1954 women's professional ball league, which inspired the movie A League of Their Own. Here you will find complete rosters of all teams, records, research resources, and pictures.

Baseball Almanac
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/

A site dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all kinds of baseball statistics, from the stadiums it is played in to the people who played it, and everything in between. Has more than 110,000 pages.

Baseball Cards 1887-1914
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

The Library of Congress presents 2,100 baseball cards from the game's earliest period. The cards show figures such as Ty Cobb stealing third base and Cy Young posing formally.

Baseball Front Page--USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/default.htm

Online version of USAToday’s magazine provides up-to-date coverage and commentary for the major leagues.

The Baseball Index
http://www.baseballindex.org/

A catalog to baseball literature. Most of the database consists of article citations, with good coverage of important publications such as Baseball Digest, Baseball Magazine, Inside Sport, International Baseball Rundown, Spirit of the Times, Sport, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Baseball Weekly.

Baseball Library
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/homepage/

Extensive baseball history site includes player and team profiles, a ‘this day in baseball’ feature, chronology of the game’s development and an explanation of baseball's rules, past and current.

Baseball Salaries Database
http://content.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default...

Salaries for individual Major League Baseball players, as well as total salaries by team, from 1988 to the current season. Based upon opening day rosters.

Baseball Trading Cards - Deutsches Forum
http://www.baseballcards.de/

German language baseball card forum including player checklists, collecting dictionary, news and information on German conventions.

Dressed to the Nines: A History of Baseball Uniforms
http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/...

The National Baseball Hall of Fame presents an exhibit on the history of baseball uniforms. Look at a timeline of major changes in baseball uniforms or search the Uniform Database for pictures of the uniforms.

Early Baseball Pictures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmabout.h...

A Library of Congress collection of historic baseball photographs and print in the following categories: Baseball Beginnings, Game Day in the Majors, Players, Non-Major League Baseball, Major League Teams and Games.

ESPN Baseball Today
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=23861...

Recaps, rumors and information about Major League Baseball

Fastball

"Now entirely devoted to the playoffs. We feature batter-by-batter results and scores from every playoff game updated every few minutes, more than 1,000 wire stories, stats and schedules, photos, hourly audio sports reports, chat and bulletin boards. In-depth coverage of the Braves includes articles from the writers who cover them every day."

Florida State League
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/index.jsp?sid=l123

Official website of Class "A" league, starting ground for Major League Baseball players. Teams are in Brevard County, Palm Beach, Clearwater, Daytona, Duneden, Fort Myers, Jupiter, Lakeland, St. Lucie, Sarasota, Tampa, and Vero Beach.

Historic Baseball
http://www.historicbaseball.com/

While this site provides history and player profiles, its collection of baseball-related obituaries is the most interesting feature.

National Baseball Hall of Fame
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/

The official web site includes information about visiting the museum, photos and biographies of the Hall of Fame members, information about the museum's exhibits and collections, web-based exhibits, games and activities, and information about the museum's Research Library.

Negro League Baseball
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/

The negroleaguebaseball.com web site is an educational project intended to provide an online resource for students, teachers, historians and baseball enthusiasts interested in increasing their knowledge of the pre-integration, professional baseball leagues and their role in the shaping of American society and the national game of baseball.

Presidential Baseball
http://www.prezbaseball.org/

This interactive game was developed by history professors to teach about parallels between America's national pastime and national leaders.

Science of Baseball
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/

Designed by San Francisco's Exploratorium, this interactive site explains the "how" behind hitting, pitching, and protective equipment.

Society for American Baseball Research
http://www.sabr.org/

Homepage for the Society of American Baseball Research, whose mission is to foster research into and dissemination of the history and record of baseball while generating interest in the game.

The Spitter
http://www.spitter.com/index.htm

As The Onion is to news, The Spitter is to baseball.

This Date in Baseball History
http://www.nationalpastime.com/

Select a month and day and find out what happened in Baseball History on that day. Includes links to bibliographic information.

Today in Baseball History
http://www.todayinbaseballhistory.com/

Find historic baseball events, baseball birthdays and baseball deaths for a selected date.